It is coming to the end of another year and it is nearly time to start many new resolutions for the year ahead.
As with every Christmas that goes by, many people gorge and eat lots of delicious Christmas food only to start the New Year resolving the extra weight they have put on from it or from the rest of the year that is now behind them.
Well, most people end up starting the year with good intentions but soon fall off the Wagon and back into their habits from the year before.
This is evident from the fact that those who sign up for a Gym membership will drop out by April.
It’s sad but true and you may even realise your own attempts faltering off after a week or month last year from your own resolutions.
- So what gets someone to stick to his or her resolutions?
- How can you make sure you stick to yours, especially when it comes to weight loss, this year?
Well, first of most Resolutions are made on a whim or spare of the moment and not given much more thought than that. Once the Resolution has been established no planning is put into it and most people think they can just wing it.
Unfortunately habits aren’t that easy to change, which is further reinforced by the saying that it takes 21 days to make a habit.
Change is difficult and has humans we hate change – we like familiarity.
What we eat and what we do in our routine will have to be changed in order for successful weight loss to happen.
At first, these changes we make have to be fully and consciously committed to until we have made them a habit or a lifestyle change.
Until it comes naturally and becomes part of our normal routine, we are in a very sensitive position. It is very easy to fall back onto the take aways, junk food and the no-exercise lifestyle.
People also mistakenly think that a weight loss Resolution is something easy to resolve, however many people find losing weight extremely difficult and one of those reasons is likely to be because of habits.
The notion of weight loss being easy, being able to eat healthy and exercise as a doddle, also prevents people from truly preparing for their weight loss journey.
Why do you need to plan for something that is straight forward as making a few dietary changes and getting off your butt?
Well it is much easier said than done. As we have established, habits die hard.
So if you want to be successful with losing weight, you have to make sure you have some sort of plan.
If you truly want to lose weight and keep it off, then making sure you make small changes over time is a much better approach and something you will be able to cope with a lot better than forcing yourself to change your entire diet over night
